The details are fuzzy, but Visalia police are trying to connect the dots after a Bulldog gang member was stabbed.

Police may have an uphill battle solving this one, though.

The first obstacle is figuring out what happened. At 9:11 p.m. Saturday, a man walked into a business near the Visalia Airport and said he'd been shot. The man was bleeding and workers called 911.

The man, a self-admitted Bulldog gang member, was rushed to Kaweah Delta Medical Center. Once there, it was determined the man had been stabbed, not shot. He was suffering from non-life threatening wounds, treated and released.

At 9:51 p.m., Visalia police officers began interviewing people in the area of Airport Drive and Hangars Way, across from Plaza Park. Witnesses, who were not involved in the incident, told police the man was fighting with an "unknown suspect."

The subject or subjects got away before police could identify an assailant.

Police believe the gang member had traveled from Fresno to Visalia.

"The victim...is a self-admitted Bulldog gang member from Fresno who had just arrived in Visalia... this may have played a role in the incident," Sgt. Curtis Brown said.

A motive remains unknown and police are asking for help from anyone in the area who may have seen the gang-related fight. Witnesses are urged to call 734-8116.

The Fresno Bulldogs started in California prisons and total as many as 12,000 gang members, according to Fresno police. There are at least 6,000 validated Fresno Bulldogs, who use Fresno State's mascot as their own.

Their primary rivals, despite sharing the same colors — red — are Nuestra Familia, which oversees Norteño street gangs. They also rival with MS-13, which oversees many Sureño gangs.

Norteño and Sureño gangs are the primary rivals in Tulare County, which serves, with Fresno, as the middle ground for northern and southern gangs.